{"title":"An Extremely Rare Association of the Giant Right Atrium with Uncorrected Tetralogy of Fallot in an Adolescent Male Patient.","authors":"Arupratan Maiti, Amrita Guha","doi":"10.4103/aca.aca_333_25","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) can be associated with widespread abnormalities, but the giant right atrium (RA) is an extremely rare one. The giant RA can cause additional problems causing atrial arrythmias, thromboembolism, and compression of adjacent structures. Tricuspid regurgitation is common with annular dilatation. In symptomatic cases, reduction atrioplasty is recommended. Sternotomy should be careful to avoid damage to the giant RA. In asymptomatic cases, anticoagulation should be carried out. We report a rare case of uncorrected TOF associated with the giant RA and got successfully treated with surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":7997,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia","volume":"29 4","pages":"634-637"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/aca.aca_333_25","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/10/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANESTHESIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: Uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) can be associated with widespread abnormalities, but the giant right atrium (RA) is an extremely rare one. The giant RA can cause additional problems causing atrial arrythmias, thromboembolism, and compression of adjacent structures. Tricuspid regurgitation is common with annular dilatation. In symptomatic cases, reduction atrioplasty is recommended. Sternotomy should be careful to avoid damage to the giant RA. In asymptomatic cases, anticoagulation should be carried out. We report a rare case of uncorrected TOF associated with the giant RA and got successfully treated with surgery.
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Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia (ACA) is the official journal of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Anaesthesiologists. The journal is indexed with PubMed/MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, IndMed and MedInd. The journal’s full text is online at www.annals.in. With the aim of faster and better dissemination of knowledge, we will be publishing articles ‘Ahead of Print’ immediately on acceptance. In addition, the journal would allow free access (Open Access) to its contents, which is likely to attract more readers and citations to articles published in ACA. Authors do not have to pay for submission, processing or publication of articles in ACA.